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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior committed b0fdc01354f
sched/core: Schedule new worker even if PI-blocked If a task is PI-blocked (blocking on sleeping spinlock) then we don't want to schedule a new kworker if we schedule out due to lock contention because !RT does not do that as well. A spinning spinlock disables preemption and a worker does not schedule out on lock contention (but spin). On RT the RW-semaphore implementation uses an rtmutex so tsk_is_pi_blocked() will return true if a task blocks on it. In this case we will now start a new worker which may deadlock if one worker is waiting on progress from another worker. Since a RW-semaphore starts a new worker on !RT, we should do the same on RT. XFS is able to trigger this deadlock. Allow to schedule new worker if the current worker is PI-blocked. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190816160626.12742-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>